I wonder... Could this be a SSH scan by some stupid script kiddie that mistook the telnet port# for that of SSH?
-Alex > I observed a sudden increase of 23/tcp probes on Feb 28 at 16:00 GMT > (from more or less zero to approx. 1500 probes per hour). It lasted for > 10 hours, then it stopped almost quickly as it started. It was neither a > focused probing of a certain kind of devices, nor any systematic sweep -- > various IP addresses (including broadcast and other reserved addresses) in > our network were hit in a seemingly random manner. > > --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms > ] > "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for > assimilation." > >
